I guess I should do an #introduction post, again, now that this instance is actually working and it's not looking like I'm gonna have to torch it and start over again, again.

Hello and welcome to my followers—745, so far, last I checked. Not nearly as many as some; a few more than I deserve, probably.

If you think you know me by some other name, you're probably right. I wouldn't say I'm exactly new to the #Fediverse, but I'm still newer than a lot of people who are likely to read this. I'll take any reasonable advice from anyone. This is the second #GotoSocial instance I've self-hosted on my own hardware. As of the exact moment I'm writing this, I'm in the process of of migrating from my account on the first one.

As far as software, I've been on #NixOS for a few years now, and #Qtile with the #Wayland backend for almost as long. #XMonad was my first #TilingWindowManager properly; tried #i3 before that, wasn't impressed. Give me #Vim at the very least, or preferably #Neovim. Current terminal emulator is #WezTerm.

GED in 2011 at the age of 17, no formal education beyond that.

I have #ADHD and #TouretteSyndrome, both diagnosed when I was 24.

Hobbies include but are not limited to collecting #rocks, watching and (and this is putting it charitably) reviewing #movies, and #unicycle.

I'm sure there's more; feel free to ask.

Thank you.

setting up luarocks on Windows is pure pain T_T

I’m pretty sure everything is working now, except it’s trying to use MSVC to compile things instead of MinGW and I get a cryptic ld error and ugh. I’ll figure that out tomorrow

Went to Michigan Renaissance festival! It was a super fun time :3 got to meet plenty of fellow fae creatures! One even offered to take my dead name, to which I gladly let them do so.

@Trey

#cosplay
#renfest
#fae

product idea:

Shoutout eggshell stickers from @municipaladhesives - this one has passed the angry manager test

U should get some or make your own!

OH:

$ cat Makefile 
.PHONY: out
out:
        @echo AWAWA...
$ make out
AWAWA...

Not suggesting anyone else do this, but I'm personally trying to be much more aware of how I use words that are basically marketing terms that have escaped containment. Words like "content" or "consume." Sometimes they're good words for referring to when business itself has escaped containment, but most of the time, it's me having internalized Art Cops into my brain, and I would like to not do that. So I don't.

i did a silly

trans Bavaria is real #mrmcd

I am so spoiled by LSPs tbh. I basically can’t write code in a language that doesn’t have really good LSP support. I’ve been thinking about learning Fennel but the lack of a stable LSP makes me not want to try it and yes I know how superficial that is lol

I just hate having to look up function signatures manually in the browser - plus LSPs catch all kinds of errors that would be hard to pin down otherwise (my Lua LSP actually warns me if I’m using a global variable because I forgot to add local which effectively fixes one of the biggest complaints I have about the language)

but also… Fennel has Lisp-style macros and that sounds so cooll! it doesn’t have a “proper” (IMO) pipe operator but I already know exactly how I would design a macro to add it to the language myself, and the fact that I can just… casually add a brand new language feature in potentially only like 10 lines of code is incredible

let’s goooo surprise Severed Steel update!!

https://steamcommunity.com/games/1227690/announcements/detail/689735528964161646

ok, I'm seeing people (maybe begrudgingly) poke around over here after bluesky made some not so great moderation decisions, so as a reminder to everyone that's been here: please do not act smug about this. bluesky worked for them and mastodon is totally different. there isn't any "wrong" place to go, neither is there a "wrong" way to post. be welcoming and accepting of other people's preferences please.

also, to people checking mastodon out for the first time or if it's been a while for you: feel free to tell off anyone who says that you're doing it wrong. block, report, whatever. you do not deserve to give harassers the time of day. that is how they win.

Behold, the first prototype of my amazing new invention: The reverse one-way screw! The natural counterpart to those anti-theft screws used to attach license plates to cars, the ROWS can only ever be unscrewed, not driven in.

To use it, simply already have it installed somewhere, and unscrew it like you would a regular screw - attempts to reinstall it will simply result in the screwdriver safely slipping out of the head, with no risk of it actually being driven back in.

#3DPrinting

ma’am, your son is a very cute adorable roomba now

ok so, this is the first time I've ever made instant mashed potatoes, and um

very accurate name

like, I poured the bag into the water, and by the time I had grabbed the fork right next to the bowl to try and stir it, it had already thickened into mashed potatoes

that was fucking fast, I thought it'd take like, about as long as instant noodles do, but nope, guess the higher surface area from being a powder just, really makes a difference there

I could not live without LSPs in Neovim, but LSPs in Neovim are the absolute worst things to configure ever T_T